After taking a breather, Hua Yunxiang secretly asked his father, only to find out that his father used a method of "hit with a stick, then give a sweet date" to calm the grandparents' family.
This meant that if they continued to make a fuss, they would be driven out of the valley—the family ties had already been severed, but if they lived quietly and well, the grain loan wouldn't need to be repaid. In the end, considering that they had raised Qi Xiu, they would be given 50 pounds of sweet potatoes, 20 pounds of potatoes, and 20 pounds of coarse grain, out of which they could choose. Naturally, the outcome was as expected.
An hour later, everyone had registered.
Wei Dapeng, Doctor Sun, and the Sun family were all delighted to receive their passes to enter the inner valley, a wooden plaque from Hua Village engraved with a special pattern.
